TExES Core Subjects EC-6 English Language Arts and Reading (901) practice test

A first-grade teacher teaches students that the letter combination sh makes a single sound, as in the word ship. The letters s and h together that represent one sound are an example of a:

A teacher wants students to identify the most important point of an informational passage about how bees make honey. The teacher is asking students to determine the:

A teacher listens to a student read aloud and notes the reading is accurate, at a good pace, and with appropriate expression. These three qualities together describe reading:

A teacher helps students figure out the meaning of the word unhappy by looking at its parts. Knowing that the prefix un means not, students can determine that unhappy means:

A teacher works with a young child on concepts of print. An example of a concept of print is understanding that:

A second-grade teacher guides students through the writing process. During the prewriting stage, students would most appropriately:

While reading a story aloud, a teacher pauses and asks students what they think will happen next based on what they have read. The teacher is helping students practice:

A teacher introduces a book that gives true information about how volcanoes form, with facts, diagrams, and a glossary. This text is best classified as:

A teacher teaches young students to instantly recognize common words such as the, said, and was without sounding them out. These frequently occurring words are often called:

A teacher asks students to identify the people and animals that the events of a story happen to. Students are being asked to identify the:

A first-grade student writes the word night as nite. This invented spelling shows that the student:

A teacher wants to develop students' oral language skills. An effective activity for building these skills is:

After reading a story, a teacher asks a student to tell the events in the order they happened, from beginning to end. The teacher is checking the student's ability to:

A teacher teaches students that the words happy and sad have opposite meanings. Words with opposite meanings are called:

A teacher reads aloud to young students daily and discusses the books with them. A key benefit of regular read-alouds for emergent readers is that they:

A teacher shows students the bold words at the start of sections of an informational book that tell what each section is about. These features are called:

A teacher uses a running record while a student reads aloud, marking the words read correctly and the errors made. The main purpose of a running record is to:

A first-grade teacher has students reading at several different levels. To meet all students' needs during reading instruction, the teacher should:

A second-grade teacher teaches students that a complete sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with an end mark such as a period. A group of words that does not express a complete thought is called a: